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Some thoughts of mine on the beginning of the Derek Dooley era.</p>
I've seen him dozens of times on TV and he seems to say the right things. Unlike our last coach, he shows respectfor the programsat the other institutions in our league.</p>
He's good looking and speaks well. He comes from a great coaching pedigree. We like him.</p>
President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last year because he wasn't George Bush. We like DerekDooley because he's not Lane Kiffen.</p>
When Kiffen left for USC, he took something very important with him. Something that every football program desperately needs.</p>
A future.</p>
A once proud UT program, one that lured some of the best high school talent in the country, is now in disarray at best and in shambles at worst.</p>
The decline didn't start with LaneKiffen. Atired and out of touchPhillip Fulmer placedthe programon life support. Lane Kiffen justpulled the plug.</p>
I used to look forward to the preseason hype of college football. UT was often mentioned with the other elites in the SEC. Those days are gone. We are now mentioned in the samebreath as Mississippi State, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt. </p>
Please pass the Xanex.</p>
Now it's Derek Dooley's job to resurrecta once proud program back to national prominence. Is he up to the task? Can he deliver us to the land of milk and honey much like Moses didfor the Jews?</p>
It took 40 years for Moses to find the Holy Land. Dooleywon't be able tofind it in that time with a roadmap and a GPS.</p>
So where does that leave us? Dooley will struggle this year and next. Come 2012, he might even win more games than he loses. By then, we may be able to compete with Kentucky and Vandy as fourth best in the SEC East behind Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. But as long as Derek Dooley is coach, the Gators and Bulldogs will continue to use us as dental floss.</p>
But at least he's not Lane Kiffen.</p>
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I've seen him dozens of times on TV and he seems to say the right things. Unlike our last coach, he shows respectfor the programsat the other institutions in our league.</p>
He's good looking and speaks well. He comes from a great coaching pedigree. We like him.</p>
President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last year because he wasn't George Bush. We like DerekDooley because he's not Lane Kiffen.</p>
When Kiffen left for USC, he took something very important with him. Something that every football program desperately needs.</p>
A future.</p>
A once proud UT program, one that lured some of the best high school talent in the country, is now in disarray at best and in shambles at worst.</p>
The decline didn't start with LaneKiffen. Atired and out of touchPhillip Fulmer placedthe programon life support. Lane Kiffen justpulled the plug.</p>
I used to look forward to the preseason hype of college football. UT was often mentioned with the other elites in the SEC. Those days are gone. We are now mentioned in the samebreath as Mississippi State, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt. </p>
Please pass the Xanex.</p>
Now it's Derek Dooley's job to resurrecta once proud program back to national prominence. Is he up to the task? Can he deliver us to the land of milk and honey much like Moses didfor the Jews?</p>
It took 40 years for Moses to find the Holy Land. Dooleywon't be able tofind it in that time with a roadmap and a GPS.</p>
So where does that leave us? Dooley will struggle this year and next. Come 2012, he might even win more games than he loses. By then, we may be able to compete with Kentucky and Vandy as fourth best in the SEC East behind Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. But as long as Derek Dooley is coach, the Gators and Bulldogs will continue to use us as dental floss.</p>
But at least he's not Lane Kiffen.</p>
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